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Unforeseen data is not only likely to disturb the researcher too sure of his theories, but it can also save the researcher when dealing with a jumble of elements for which he is unable to account as a whole because it evokes incomprehensible images. Thus, observations made in India got another resea...

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Main Author: Philippe d’Iribarne
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2013-11-01
Series:Sociologies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/4529
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Summary:Unforeseen data is not only likely to disturb the researcher too sure of his theories, but it can also save the researcher when dealing with a jumble of elements for which he is unable to account as a whole because it evokes incomprehensible images. Thus, observations made in India got another research out of a rut, for which we struggled with the understanding of how a French factory worked. Similarly, work on feudal society led us to a better understanding of the current relationships between the diversity of operations of organizations in the Anglo-Saxon, German and French worlds and the understanding of freedom specific to each of these worlds. However, the larger number of figures we have in mind that can provide patterns of interpretation, the more chance may be favorable to us.
ISSN:1992-2655